atheism

Everything Wrong With This Tweet

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A brother recently asked me “How would you respond to this common atheist retort?”

“If you need someone to threaten eternal damnation in order to be a good person, you need more than just religion.” Continue Reading

Ridicule is the Weapon of the Disbeliever

On YouTube, there is a rise of channels (The Vegan Atheist comes to mind) of super-smart-unbiased-intellectual-smartherthanthou-amazinglyintelligent-skeptics who are now making it their primary business to ridicule the Creator of the Universe’s Last Covenant with mankind. Continue Reading

Can Religious Texts Be Used as Historical Evidence?

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In a recent Reddit thread, someone asked about the practice of infanticide. In response, I said the following: Continue Reading

Why would you follow an illiterate 7th century desert-dweller?

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If you are a Muslim, you would have heard some variation of the above either directly or indirectly at some point in your life. The genesis for this thought comes from a foundational belief that permeates the entirety of modern culture and is at the heart of humanism. That belief is progress. Continue Reading

New Video: Should we believe in a realm beyond nature?

Abortion Doctors are Breaking the Hippocratic Oath

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The Hippocratic oath is a pledge taken by physicians of the ancient world principally to swear to “do no harm” to their patients, and to retain strict confidentiality. Variations of it have emerged in all subsequent civilizations which built off of Greek medicine. Modern doctors are required to abide by a code of ethics which is the historical descendant of the Hippocratic oath. It goes without saying that the Hippocratic oath is a great achievement in the history of the human race. Continue Reading

Muslim-Atheist Dialogue: Are Childhood Marriages a Universal Evil?

Introduction

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In my recent video on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s interview with Jordan Peterson I mentioned an example of something which is actually attributable to Islamic primary sources and which modern Westerners would find reprehensible, namely, child marriage. Continue Reading

Why “Christians were violent too!” Is a Bad Argument

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I constantly see this argument that Leftists (and consequently their Muslim acolytes who seek protection in their masters’ arms) like to use. It goes something like this: Oh, you’re going to quote the Quran and say that Muslims are all violent? Well guess what? Christianity was violent too! Look at the Crusades! Look at the Inquisition! Look at all these horrible persecutions of minorities that Christians have done over the centuries! Thus we cannot judge Muslims to be violent just because of what their scripture says. There are multiple interpretations!

The reason why this is a bad argument is twofold. First of all, and the more important of which, it feeds into this narrative that religion is evil and violent. “Religion is the cause of violence” is a common New Atheist argument and all we’re doing is enforcing that (false) narrative. In fact, I frequently see people comment on articles that invoke this kind of argument something along the lines of “this is why all religions are evil/stupid. We shouldn’t persecute Muslims, but why would anyone believe in anything that stupid anyway.” Continue Reading

New Video: Oppy vs Feser, Objections to the Contingency Argument, and Pascal’s Wager

Elmo’s World Podcast Interview

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I was recently interviewed by Elmo from Elmo’s World Podcast (available here on Spotify and iTunes). Here is a summary of the topics covered: Continue Reading